Change of Heart 2

Chapter 17

"Please tell me this is a joke." He said seriously. "Cate, tell me you're joking."

"How do you know my name?" She asked. "And how did you know I was here...how did I get here?" She looked around the room.

"Let's just go and we'll figure this out ok." He said taking her hand.

"No." She pulled her hand away from him. "I don't know you so I'm not going anywhere with you. Thanks for helping me but I need to get home."

"Cate you live with me."

"No I don't. I live in an apartment on Ninth Street by myself. I've lived there all my life and that's where I'm going." She spoke to him seriously and walked past him heading for the door.

"What are you talking about? You don't remember anyone? Avalon? Aiden?" He walked behind her. "Jessie? Jennifer? Vince?"

"I don't know who those people are and I don't know you." She said. "Have a good night." She was out the door and out of sight in less than a minute.

He followed her out of the building and into the streets where she walked all the way back to the coffee shop he was in not too long ago. She walked inside ordered a latte and sat at a table to finish it. He didn't let her see him. When the waitress arrived she spoke to her normally and even laughed a bit. She didn't act like someone who just lost their memory at all. Maybe she didn't remember that she lost her memory, but then again that didn't make sense.

"Hey, can I have an espresso to go please?" She asked the waitress.

While she waited she took out a cell phone Adrian had never seen before and went through it for almost ten minutes straight.

"Here's your order."

"Thank you; I'll need this in the morning. Long day tomorrow." She smiled handing the woman a twenty dollar bill which she took out from a wallet; something else Adrian had never seen her with. She left the shop and he watched her as she got into a cab that took her to her 'home'. He didn't follow her there. It was no use. It was clear that this wasn't the Cate he once knew; that Cate was gone.

He stood by the taxi stand unable to move for a while. He didn't know what to do or even feel. His eyes didn't leave the spot where Cate's cab disappeared into the darkness; disappeared from his sight and maybe from his life. When the pain in his head started to feel like a hammer pounding his skull he moved his feet to leave.

"Adrian?" Someone called his name, but when he turned around to see who it was something hit him in his head and his sight was gone.